We can take selfies...
...go bicycle riding...
...go skeet shooting...
...play baseball...
...all while being prepared for inclement weather...
Posted on 08/06/2018 4:06:38 PM PDT by detective
Illinois residents celebrated their first annual “Barack Obama Day” on Saturday after the state legislature voted in 2017 to make the day honoring former President Barack Obama a state holiday.
The bill establishing Obama’s birthday as a state holiday unanimously passed the Illinois state legislature last year, and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner signed the measure into law on August 6, 2017.
The legislation declared August 4 “Barack Obama Day” in the state of Illinois, but did not make the holiday an official legal holiday over concerns the state could not afford the cost of giving state employees a paid holiday.
Some legislators also balked at the idea that Obama—who made Illinois his permanent residence in 1995 and only lived in the state for ten years full time—got his own holiday while former President Ronald Reagan—who was born in the state and lived there for 21 years—never had a day in his honor.
#ObamaDay became the top trending topic on Twitter Saturday afternoon, with celebrities and left-wing personalities—many of whom do not live in Illinois—celebrating Obama Day by tweeting the former president a happy birthday while bashing President Trump:
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Filthy enemy islamist, Kenyan born pig-dog, soebarkah.
I feel for ya brother.
Was born waaaaaaay downstate, but got out a long long time ago and haven’t been back since Dad’s funeral in ‘99.
Eliminate Chicongo and the rest of the state is solid conservative.
Good thing though: come shtf time, the ferals will either starve to death or kill each other off in a week.
And they do NOT wanna venture too far south > truth.
We can take selfies...
...go bicycle riding...
...go skeet shooting...
...play baseball...
...all while being prepared for inclement weather...
The celebratory gunfire got a little out of hand........
The Kenyanesian Usurper should have a day in court, not a day named after him.
That’s like a normal person celebrating “Hemorrhoid Day” every year on the anniversary of their diagnosis.
One Tactical Nuke and Illinois is Red.
How?
By going on a shooting rampage?
I host a “Barack Obama” movement most mornings.
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